In a street rage case, a cab driver was stabbed to demise by three boys in south Delhi, an official mentioned on Friday.

The deceased recognized as Manoj Kumar, a resident of Sangam Vihar, was working as a cab driver in Gurugram’s BPO.

“As usual on Thursday evening, he picked five employees of BPO from Malviya Nagar area and then one from Mehrauli. After picking them, the cab got stuck in a jam as the streets of Mehrauli are narrow,” mentioned a senior police official.

At 8:40 p.m, three boys on a scooty got here from behind and requested the cab driver to present him area for overtaking however the automobile driver could not as there was no area.

“Soon the scooty-borne riders had an altercation. One of the scooty riders came down and attacked the cab driver with a sharp edged weapon at his chest and ran away on the scooty. The injured was taken to Safdarjung Hospital where he was declared dead,” mentioned Deputy Commissioner of Police (south), Chandan Chowdhary.

During the probe, the CCTV cameras within the space had been checked and all of the three accused had been recognized.

“A minor has been apprehended while efforts are being made to apprehend others,” the DCP added.

Rajasthan is experiencing a surge in tourism this Christmas and New Year season, with historic cities like Jaipur, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer to call a number of witnessing a 20 per cent enhance in vacationer arrivals in comparison with final 12 months.

The magic of Rajasthan’s heritage, custom, tradition, forts, and desert landscapes is attracting vacationers from throughout India and overseas.

Over 2.5 lakh vacationers visited simply two historic websites in Jaipur, Nahargarh Fort and Albert Hall, between October and December twenty fifth, highlighting the size of the tourism increase. This pattern is predicted to proceed in January, with tourism officers anticipating even greater numbers.

“There has been a huge boom in Rajasthan’s tourism, Jaipur alone receives more than 50,000 tourists every day, out of which over 15,000 are from abroad,” mentioned Mahendra Khadgawat, Director of the Rajasthan Archeology and Museum Department.

India’s state gas retailers have raised procurement costs for ethanol produced from C-heavy molasses by 6.87 rupees per litre to 56.28 rupees per litre, in accordance with trade sources and a doc reviewed by Reuters on Friday.

The transfer is geared toward boosting manufacturing of ethanol, which is used for mixing with petrol. More than 10% of a litre of petrol bought in India is ethanol and the nation has set a goal to lift mixing to twenty% by 2025.

Earlier this 12 months, the federal government directed sugar mills to not use cane juice or syrup to supply ethanol, as New Delhi tried to extend sugar provides by curbing ethanol output.

The authorities allowed mills to supply ethanol solely from C-heavy molasses, a cane by-product that has hardly any sugar content material left in it.

A wave of Russian strikes in opposition to Ukrainian cities on Friday reveals the nation wants “more support” from the worldwide neighborhood, Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak mentioned on Friday.

“We are doing everything to strength our air shield. But the world needs to see that we need more support and strength to stop this terror,” Yermak wrote on Telegram.

Russia launched a wave of missile strikes on Friday throughout Ukrainian cities, together with the capital, officers mentioned, as they raised a nationwide air alert.

“We are doing everything to strengthen our air shield. But the world needs to see that we need more support and strength to stop this terror,” Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak wrote on Telegram.

AFP reporters in central Kyiv heard a number of highly effective explosions within the early hours of Friday.

“Explosions in Kyiv. Air defence operating. Stay in shelters,” town’s mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned in a submit on Telegram.

Klitschko later mentioned a warehouse was on hearth.

Sergiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s navy administration, mentioned particles fell in two elements of town and there was additionally a hearth in a residential house constructing.

The in a single day assaults got here days after Ukraine struck a Russian warship within the occupied Crimean port of Feodosia in a significant setback for the Russian navy.

Drones and missiles struck a minimum of 5 different Ukrainian cities on Friday, together with Kharkiv within the northeast, Lviv within the west in addition to Odesa within the south, the cities’ mayors and police mentioned.

Russia launched a wave of missile strikes on Friday throughout Ukrainian cities, together with the capital, authorities mentioned as they raised a nationwide air alert.

The in a single day assaults got here days after Ukraine struck a Russian warship within the occupied Crimean port of Feodosia.

Explosions had been reported in Kyiv, metropolis mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned in a submit on Telegram.

Missiles additionally struck a minimum of 5 different Ukrainian cities, together with Kharkiv within the northeast, Lviv within the nation’s west in addition to Odesa within the south, the cities’ mayors and police mentioned.

“Today, at five o’clock in the morning, the fascists’ followers hit the peaceful city with S-300 missiles. 10 explosions rang out in Kharkiv. Specialized services quickly arrived at strike spots,” Kharkiv area police mentioned.

Overnight assaults had been additionally reported in Sumy and Konotop.

Dense fog shrouded many elements of Kashmir the place the minimal temperature dropped a number of levels under the freezing level, officers mentioned on Friday.

Kashmir is at the moment within the grip of “Chilla-i-Kalan”, a 40-day harsh winter interval, when temperatures drop significantly resulting in the freezing of water our bodies, together with the Dal Lake, in addition to water in provide strains.

The probabilities of snowfall are the best throughout this era and most areas, particularly the upper reaches, obtain heavy snowfall. “Chilla-i-Kalan” will finish on January 31 and might be adopted by the 20-day “Chilla-i-Khurd” and the 10-day “Chilla-i-Bachha”.

The minimal temperature in Srinagar settled at minus 3.3 levels Celsius – identical because the earlier evening, officers mentioned.

A hearth destroyed a manufacturing facility in an industrial pocket in Maharashtra’s Thane district, an official mentioned on Friday.

No one was injured within the hearth that broke out on the packaging unit at Taloja MIDC space round 8.30 pm on Thursday, he mentioned.

An official from the Taloja hearth station mentioned native firemen and others from neighbouring hearth stations rushed to the spot and managed the blaze.

While the fireplace destroyed the manufacturing facility, its trigger is being probed, he added.

After two days of dense to very dense fog, visibility improved in lots of elements of Delhi on Friday as most fog reworked into low clouds, in accordance with the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

Dense to reasonable fog circumstances had been witnessed in remoted pockets of the capital within the early hours of the day.

The IMD mentioned the development in visibility will be attributed to the breaking of the inversion layer this morning, in distinction to the circumstances noticed from December 25 to twenty-eight, indicating weakening of the lower-level steady boundary layer.

The visibility was 200 metres at Safdarjung, Delhi’s most important climate station, and 50 metres at Palam.

Train companies had been impacted on account of fog for the third day with 11 Delhi-bound trains delayed.

The Mizoram authorities has granted common consent to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe offences within the state.

In a gazette notification on Thursday, the state authorities mentioned, “In exercise of the powers conferred by section 6 of the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946, the Government of Mizoram hereby accords consent to exercise powers and jurisdiction of the members of the Delhi Special Police Establishment for investigation of offences in the state of Mizoram.”

“The Government of Mizoram grants consent for a CBI investigation of offences in the state of Mizoram. Our government is resolute in eliminating corruption for the welfare of our citizens,” CM Lalduhoma posted on X on Friday.

A tripartite peace accord between the pro-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), and the central and Assam governments might be signed right here on Friday, aiming to finish decades-old insurgency within the northeastern state, officers mentioned.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and greater than a dozen high leaders of the pro-talks faction of the ULFA, headed by Arabinda Rajkhowa, might be current throughout the signing of the peace settlement.

The accord will handle a number of long-standing political, financial and social points regarding Assam, moreover offering cultural safeguards and land rights to the indigenous folks, the officers mentioned.

In yet one more letter to the MVA (Maha Vikas Aghadi) leaders, former Lok Sabha MP Prakash Ambedkar, the grandson of Dr BR Ambedkar, reiterated his curiosity in becoming a member of the MVA and INDIA alliance forward of the Lok Sabha elections 2024.

Amid the tussle over seat sharing in Maharashtra, VBA (Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi) President Prakash Ambedkar in his letter to the Mallikarjun Kharge, Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray, harassed the necessity to undertake his proposed method of 12 seats to every events.

He termed the “12+12+12+12 formula” as a ‘conflict-free’ plan to resolve on the variety of seat sharing within the state.

“Recognising the importance of the 48 seats in unseating Modi in 2024 and taking in consideration the indecisiveness regarding seat-sharing within I.N.D.I.A in important states like Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Bihar, Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi’s (VBA) Maharashtra State Committee proposed a practical and “conflict-free” formula of 12 + 12 + 12 + 12 on Tuesday,” the letter mentioned.

Officials of the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) rescued a 45-year-old man trapped in a 35-foot-deep effectively in Tangmarg village right here on Thursday.

As per officers, the person was trapped within the effectively for over 9 hours.

“A rescue operation was carried out by the SDRF team to save a 45-year-old man who was trapped for 9 hours in a 35-foot-deep well in north Kashmir’s Tangmarg village in Baramulla district,” SDRF officers mentioned.

Earlier in June this 12 months, seven labourers trapped within the flooded Ujh river in Kathua district had been rescued by the SDRF group.

The labourers had been stranded within the Ujh River, flooded after heavy rainfall lashed hilly areas, an SDRF official had mentioned.

The labourers, who went fishing within the river, had been stranded earlier than being rescued with the help of locals, he added.

A fairytale farewell is on the playing cards with Dean Elgar being named South Africa’s skipper for the ultimate Test in opposition to India after Temba Bavuma was dominated out of the ultimate Test of the sequence.

Cricket South Africa confirmed the identical after the conclusion of the primary sport on Thursday as per ICC.

Bavuma was injured throughout fielding on Day 1 of the Test match and didn’t return to the sport after scans confirmed a hamstring pressure. In his absence, Elgar will captain the group within the ultimate match of his worldwide profession, after asserting his intention to retire previous to the sequence. After Bavuma was taken off the pitch throughout the first Test, Elgar took over as captain in South Africa’s innings and 32-run victory at Centurion.

The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions on a bunch of cash alternate companies from Yemen and Turkey alleged to assist present funding to Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who’ve been launching assaults on business delivery vessels within the southern Red Sea — together with a drone and a missile that had been shot down Thursday by the U.S. navy.

Included within the sanctions are the pinnacle of a monetary middleman in Sana’a, Yemen, together with three alternate homes in Yemen and Turkey. U.S. Treasury alleges that the folks and companies helped switch thousands and thousands of {dollars} to the Houthis on the course of sanctioned Iranian monetary facilitator Sa’id al-Jamal.

The sanctions block entry to U.S. property and financial institution accounts and forestall the focused folks and corporations from doing enterprise with Americans.

Thursday’s motion is the newest spherical of economic penalties meant to punish the Houthis.

Huawei mentioned Friday it anticipated a rise of just about 9 % in its income for the 2023 monetary 12 months, regardless of US sanctions in opposition to the Chinese technological large.

“After years of hard work, we managed to weather the storm,” rotating chairman Ken Hu mentioned in remarks launched Friday, whereas including the agency faces “serious challenges ahead of us”.

The mortal stays of DMDK president and actor Vijayakanth had been dropped at Island Ground, Anna Salai on Friday morning.

The mortal stays might be saved at Island Ground from 6 am to 1 pm for the general public to pay their final respects.

Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) founder-leader and actor Vijayakanth handed away in Chennai, aged 71, after testing optimistic for COVID-19 on Thursday.

The mortal stays of the DMDK chief had been earlier saved on the DMDK workplace, the place a number of political leaders, actors, and others got here to pay their tributes.

Security has been up within the Naupada police station space in Thane after a synagogue, Jew worship place, obtained a bomb risk, police mentioned.

A senior police official mentioned {that a} Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) was despatched to the spot, and the premises of the synagogue, together with close by buildings and outlets, had been evacuated. However, nothing suspicious was discovered on the spot.

“Naupada police got information that the synagogue has received a threat email. Police officials and staff reached the spot. The synagogue was evacuated, and the nearby buildings and shops were also evacuated, and traffic was diverted. The BDDS also came and inquired. The BDDS squad has cleared that there are no explosives here,” mentioned Thane DCP Ganesh Gawde.

He additional talked about that further safety preparations are being maintained within the space to make sure the security of the synagogue.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Jaipur airport authority obtained an electronic mail threatening to explode the airport.

The U.S. navy’s X-37B area aircraft blasted off Thursday on one other secretive mission that’s anticipated to final a minimum of a few years.

Like earlier missions, the reusable aircraft resembling a mini area shuttle carried categorised experiments. There’s nobody on board.

The area aircraft took off aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at evening, greater than two weeks late due to technical points.

It marked the seventh flight of an X-37B, which has logged greater than 10 years in orbit since its debut in 2010.

An American warship shot down a drone and an anti-ship ballistic missile fired Thursday by Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels, the US navy mentioned.

The Huthis have repeatedly focused vessels within the important Red Sea delivery lane with strikes they are saying are in assist of Palestinians in Gaza, the place Israel is battling militant group Hamas.

“The USS Mason (DDG 87) shot down one drone and one anti-ship ballistic missile in the Southern Red Sea that were fired by the Huthis,” US Central Command (CENTCOM) mentioned in an announcement, referring to a guided-missile destroyer.

The world inhabitants grew by 75 million folks over the previous 12 months and on New Year’s Day it can stand at greater than 8 billion folks, in accordance with figures launched by the US Census Bureau on Thursday.

The worldwide development fee up to now 12 months was just below 1 per cent. At the beginning of 2024, 4.3 births and two deaths are anticipated worldwide each second, in accordance with the Census Bureau figures.

The development fee for the United States up to now 12 months was 0.53 per cent, about half the worldwide determine. The US added 1.7 million folks and could have a inhabitants on New Year’s Day of 335.8 million folks.

If the present tempo continues by the tip of the last decade, the 2020s might be the slowest-growing decade in US historical past, yielding a development fee of lower than 4 per cent over the 10-year-period from 2020 to 2030, mentioned William Frey, a demographer at The Brookings Institution.

The slowest-growing decade at the moment was within the aftermath of the Great Depression within the Thirties, when the expansion fee was 7.3 per cent.

Powerful surf rolled onto seashores on the West Coast and Hawaii on Thursday as an enormous swell generated by the stormy Pacific Ocean pushed towards shorelines, inflicting localised flooding.

Forecasters urged folks to remain off rocks and jetties, and to not flip their backs to the ocean due to the hazard of “sneaker waves” — occasional a lot larger waves that may run far up the sand and wash somebody off a seaside.

A excessive surf warning for elements of Northern California mentioned waves would vary from 28 to 33 toes (8.5 to 10 metres) and as much as 40 toes (12 metres) at some places, the National Weather Service mentioned, including that there have been reviews of flooding in low-lying coastal areas.

In Aptos on the north finish of Monterey Bay, surf overran the seaside and swept right into a parking zone, leaving the realm strewn with particles. Santa Cruz County issued warnings for folks in a number of coastal areas to be able to evacuate.

A tough-hit Israeli kibbutz on Thursday introduced the demise of Judith Weinstein — an American-Canadian-Israeli lady who had been considered held hostage in Gaza.

The information got here six days after Weinstein’s husband, Gad Haggai, was additionally pronounced lifeless.

Weinstein, 70, and Haggai, 73, had been taking an early morning stroll close to their dwelling in Kibbutz Nir Oz on the morning of October 7 when Hamas militants burst throughout the border into Israel, killing about 1,200 folks and kidnapping 240 others.

In the early hours of the morning, Weinstein was capable of name emergency companies and allow them to know that each she and her husband had been shot and ship a message to her household.

Weinstein and her husband had been considered among the many hostages nonetheless held in captivity in Gaza. But six days in the past, the kibbutz introduced that Haggai was killed October 7 and his physique was taken to Gaza.

On Thursday, the kibbutz mentioned it had realized that Weinstein was additionally killed on October 7 and her physique can also be being held in Gaza.

It was not instantly clear how Israeli authorities decided their deaths.

The couple are survived by two sons and two daughters and 7 grandchildren, the kibbut mentioned.

Fleeing Palestinians have packed into areas alongside Gaza’s border with Egypt and the southern Mediterranean shoreline, the place shelters and tent camps are overflowing.

The U.N. humanitarian workplace says the size and depth of floor operations and combating between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed teams and their devastating affect is impeding help deliveries.

The Israeli navy’s air and floor offensive in opposition to Hamas has widened to many of the territory. Israel says it’s hanging militant targets, although properties stuffed with individuals are frequently crushed.

Israeli forces bombarded cities, cities and refugee camps throughout Gaza in a single day and into Thursday, killing dozens of individuals.

More than 20,000 Palestinians, two-thirds of them ladies and youngsters, have been killed for the reason that begin of the warfare, in accordance with the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants among the many lifeless.

About 1,200 folks had been killed after Hamas raided southern Israel on Oct. 7, with round 240 folks taken hostage. Israel says it goals to free the greater than 100 hostages who stay in captivity in Gaza.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday mentioned that the connection between India and Russia isn’t just about diplomacy or economics, it’s one thing a lot deeper.

Jaishankar, who’s right here on a five-day official go to to Russia, made the remarks whereas interacting with Indologists at St. Petersburg State University.

“The relationship between India and Russia is not just about politics or diplomacy or economics. It is something much deeper,” he mentioned, including that the intelligentsia’s position and the contribution of students to this understanding and bonding is essential.

A United Nations (UN) report has detailed the quickly deteriorating human rights state of affairs within the occupied West Bank, together with East Jerusalem, after the October 7 Hamas assaults, and calls on Israel to finish illegal killings and settler violence in opposition to the Palestinian inhabitants.

The report requires a right away finish to using navy weapons and means throughout regulation enforcement operations, an finish to arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of Palestinians, and the lifting of discriminatory motion restrictions.

The UN Human Rights Office has verified the deaths of 300 Palestinians from October 7 to December 27, together with 79 youngsters, within the occupied West Bank, together with East Jerusalem, for the reason that assaults by Hamas and different Palestinian armed teams in southern Israel. Of these, Israeli Security Forces killed a minimum of 291 Palestinians, settlers killed eight, and one Palestinian was killed both by Israeli Security Forces or settlers.

An Accountability Court primarily based in Islamabad has set a date for the indictment of former prime minister Imran Khan, and his spouse, Bushra Bibi, within the Toshakhana reference case, ARY News reported.

The courtroom presided over by Judge Muhammad Bashir at Adaiala jail, has scheduled the indictment for January 4.

The Toshakhana reference case implicates Imran Khan and his spouse for allegedly possessing items obtained from worldwide dignitaries, which had been alleged to be deposited within the Toshakhana. The accused had been supplied with copies of the reference and related info throughout the listening to, as reported by ARY News.

Earlier, on December 23, Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi had been summoned in reference to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Toshakhana reference. The Accountability Court accepted the reference filed by NAB, claiming that the accused had obtained 108 objects from the Toshakhana and retained 58 of them.